Doris Roberts Quotes

• You know I’m an actress, not just a funny lady.

  Doris Roberts

• You can’t show me an ad on TV with hard bodies and say I have to buy that car. You have to tell me why that car is better and safer than another car.

  Doris Roberts

• You can change my mind, but you gotta work harder at it.

  Doris Roberts

• You can call me an older woman – I don’t mind that at all – just don’t call me an old one, because I’m not.

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• With my talent, I can make people laugh and give them another attitude about life. What a blessing that is for me.

  Doris Roberts

• When I was in kindergarten, I had one line in a little play. I said, I am Patrick Potato and this is my cousin, Mrs. Tomato, and I heard laughter. I wanted to be an actress from that moment on.

   

  Doris Roberts

• When I go, if there’s a tombstone it will say, She doesn’t give in. She doesn’t give up. And she never takes no for an answer.

  Doris Roberts

• There’s no magazine you open, unless its AARP, that shows a woman over the age of 45 in any other light, other than having to buy Depends or Viagra.

  Doris Roberts

• The minute you’re born, you’re getting older.

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• My awards are lovely. I love to show them of.

  Doris Roberts

• Love them for who they are, and what they are they are; they are not you. Good stuff, isn’t it? You have to live 73 years to get that.

  Doris Roberts

• If someone is mean, harmful, or evil, they’re out of my life. I cross them out.

  Doris Roberts

• I’m learning something all the time. That’s the way I want it to go, and that’s the way I’ll go until I am no longer on this planet.

  Doris Roberts

• I used to sit near Marilyn Monroe in the Actor’s Studio. She’d get dressed up because that was her identity. Sad. Those cameras wouldn’t leave her alone. She didn’t know where to hide.

  Doris Roberts

• I think women are taught to ask permission about everything. We don’t realize that we are entitled and we do have a say in our lives.

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• Humor is imperative, more important than food. You have a choice when someone dies. You can lie down or get back into life. Do something for someone else.

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• Everybody’s a teacher if you listen.

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Doris Roberts (17)

Birth:	4th November, 1925
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actress

About

Doris Roberts was born in St. Louis, Missouri. She is an American actress of film, stage, and television. She has received five Emmy Awards and a Screen Actors Guild award during her acting career, which began in 1951. Roberts's acting career began in 1952 with a role on the TV series Studio One. In 1961, she made her film debut in Something Wild. In 2003, she made a guest appearance as Gordo's grandmother in Lizzie McGuire. She appeared in the 2009 film Aliens in the Attic, which was filmed in Auckland, New Zealand.

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Births

• 1882 - Sylvia Pankhurst
• 1926 - Peter Shaffer
• 1628 - Dominique Bouhours
• 1951 - Jonathan Richman
• 1931 - Ken Venturi

Deaths

• 1978 - Robert Menzies
• 1949 - Mary Antin
• 1976 - Samuel Eliot Morison
• 1925 - Nelson A. Miles
• 1986 - Theodore H. White